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VESSEL
Unique ID: CORN-1A98C9
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cast lead alloy bird feeder or water trough, flattened so that both sides now meet, when it would have originally been D-shaped in plan. One side would have been flat to fit flush with the wall or the side of the cage. The base of the feeder would have been flat and the body would have flared upward from the base, with a flanged rim. There is now a recessed groove where the rim would have flanged outwards, with a raised moulded band above it that runs around the circumference of the feeder. The upper edge of the rim is also decorated with a band of raised pellets between two raised linear borders. This relatively plain example is typical of troughs that date from the 16th to the 17th whereas those decorated all over the body tend to date from the 15th century. The metal surface is worn and cracked with a layer of corrosion and several indentations and gashes from more recent damage.
Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 128, no.811, which is dated from the 16th to the 17th century.
Egan (2005) illustrates a similar example on page 129, fig.124, no.617, which is unstratified, but others are dated from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Class: bird feeder
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 76 mm
Height: 46 mm
Width: 46 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 80.15 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 12th April 2014
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Launcells (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SS2304
Four figure Latitude: 50.80844326
Four figure longitude: -4.51358589
1:25K map: SS2304
1:10K map: SS20SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egan, G. | 2005 | Material Culture in London in an Age Of Transition: Tudor and Stuart period finds c.1450 - c.1700 from excavations at riverside sites in Southwark | London | Museum of London Archaeology Service | 129, fig.124, | no.617 | |
| Read, B. | 1995 | History Beneath our Feet (1995) | Ipswich | Anglia Publishing | 128, | No.811 |
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